tulisan ini pernah diposting carla. mungkin pak a. marconi bisa memberi pencerahan mengapa para sarjana besar islam ini dulu mendapat perlakuan tak jauh berbeda dengan galileo di dunia kristen?
>dear Pak Kartono, > >actually there're scientist, philosophers, mathematican, astronomers that >could be associated with islam such as: >1. al- farabi, ibn sina, al-kindi ( these three philosophers combined >aristotelianism and neoplatonism with other ideas introduced to Islam) but >sadly in their era, their teaching according to islam was heretic and they >re considered as non-islamic philosophers. > >abt ibn sina: excelled in medicine but his contribution to science and >philosophy is also greatly remembered. Muslims proudly call him the doctor >of doctors and enjoy virtual pleasure, alleging him as a golden age of >golden Islam. Despite taking the credit, Muslim countries never benefited >from his works, however many hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and hotels of >Islamic countries are named after him. Ironically, European universities >added Ibn Sinas medical and philosophical works to their curriculum but >they remained unknown to the witch factories aka madrassas of the Muslim >world. > >However, his freethinking mind did not accept the absurdities of Islam. He >opined in his autobiography under the chapter of THE AFTER LIFE. >after life is a notion received from religious teaching; there is no way >of establishing its truth save by way of religious dogma and acceptance >of the prophets report as true; there refers to what will befall the body >at the resurrection and those corporal delights or torments which are too >well-known to require restating here. >Even during his lifetime ibn sina (Avicenna) was suspected of infidelity >to Islam; after his death accusations of heresy, free thought and atheism >were repeatedly leveled against him. > >2. al razi ( abu bakr mohammed ibn zakariya ar- razi) >another great physician wrote more than 200 books of >one half of them are about medicine and rest in physics, mathematics and >astronomy. Like Ibn Sina, Ar-Razis works had set milestones in medical >science. The most controversial book On Prophecy has not survived for an >obvious reason. Most likely embarrassed Muslims could not swallow the >contents that humiliated the prophet of Islam. Somehow, a part of his >second book slipped through the hand of ignorant. Ar-Razi quipped -"These >billy goats (Prophets) pretend to come with a message from God, all the >while exhausting themselves in spouting their lies, and imposing on the >masses blind obedience to the "words of the master." > >3. abu 'l-ala ahmad b. abdallah al-ma'arri >al ma'arri was also known as the eastern lucretius was famous for poetry >and grammar, He was born in Syria but traveled many places until he became >blind. He lived in Baghdad for only eighteen months but within this short >time he made a name for himself as a poet. After returning from Baghdad , >he lived in his hometown Marra for another fifty years. Because of his >fame, students from distant places went to Al-Marri to learn from him. >Like Ibn Sina, al-Marri did not believe in resurrection and strongly >condemned religious beliefs. One of his poems says it all . > >"Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray >Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way. >We mortals are composed of two great schools: >Enlightened knaves else religious fools...' > >4. astronomer and and philosopher muslim born Omar khayam. >Omar khayam was best known for his rubaiyats or poems but he was >outstanding mathematican and astronomers, He also wrote a book of music, >an un-Islamic act that may throw him in a burning hell. His calculation of >365.24219858156 days making a year is so close to accurate that modern >scientists respectfully remember his name. Omar Khayyam also found a >geometric solution of cubic equations. > >Islam strictly prohibits Martini and bikini. According to Quran, Muslim >women are not allowed to reveal their beauty and drinking wine gives you a >one-way ticket to hell. But Omar Khayyam was an admirer of beauty and wine. > >Drinking wine is my travail >Till my body is dead and stale >At my grave site all shall hail >Odor of wine shall prevail. > >Another piece of gem >Heaven is incomplete without a heavenly romance >Let a glass of wine be my present circumstance >Take what is here now, let go of a promised chance >A drumbeat is best heard from a distance. > >Sadly, Muslim intellectuals do not understand that those golden age of >Islam did not care for the Quran neither they discovered anything out of >that book. Even though they had the chance of discovering from relatively >fresh Quran but they followed the trend of Pythagoras, Aristotle (384-322 >BC), Euclid (325-265 BC), Archimedes (287-212 BC), Ptolemy (85-165 AD). > >Jabir Ibn Haiyan, born unknown and died in 803, probably saw the earliest >Quran, served hot from the oven. Interestingly he called Socrates 'the >father and mother of all philosophers' and considered him as the prototype >of the real chemist instead of finding any chemical formula from the >Quran. Pythagoras has often been mentioned in various works of those >scholars but failed to discover the speed, velocity or acceleration of >Mohammads unicorn, the mythical horse called Buraque. Bernard Lewis has >rightly concluded in his book What Went Wrong?- The Islamic Empire >inherited "the knowledge and skills of the ancient Middle east, of Greece >and of Persia, it added to them new and important innovations from >outside, such as the manufacture of paper from China and decimal >positional numbering from India. > >Liberal Abbasid Caliphates such as Harun-al-Rashid and Mamun sponsored >those great scholars of the middle age. They were tolerant enough to allow >Aristotelian logic, adopted as a framework upon which to build science and >philosophy but contrary to Quranic teachings. Eventually, some Muslims >understood the threat of real knowledge and how this movement was >undermining Islam. At the end of 10th century, famous theologian and a >perfect Muslim al-Ghazali brought back the origin of Islam, the real Islam >that was practiced by the founder of the religion. In his book, The >destruction of philosophy al-Ghazali challenged the process of >reasoning because it cannot prove the reality of Allah. Philosophical >thoughts and scientific investigations were pushed aside and by the time >of his death in 1111, the glorious days of medieval age became a story of >the past. > >Actually these great scholars flourished not because of Islam but they >thrived because they abandoned Islam. When Muslim intellectuals >desperately try to brand those great people with Islamic marker, it >becomes obvious that they are suffering from inferiority complex and >abusing those scholars in the name of Islam. > >Is it not ironic that those incredible achievements were made by all >basically apostates in Islam.
